On May 9, 2012, Milliken's official portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill, and was hung in the Speaker's Corridor of the Centre Block.

Don is so tall that his face was never seen ; his head extended above the top of the strip until he posed for a family portrait with his new baby on January 2, 2012.

At the 2012 competition, team members also won individual first place awards for still life, portrait, and the thematic category ( the latter entry won using an iPhone ).

Although the model of the painting " La Belle Ferroniere " is still shrouded in mystery, the landmark exhibition " Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan " ( National Gallery of Art in London, 9 Nov. 2011-5 Feb. 2012 ) listed the portrait as possibly depicting Beatrice d ' Este, wife of Ludovico Sforza.

In April 2009, a BBC television portrait entitled, like the previous radio programme, The Jazz Baroness was broadcast on the television channel BBC Four, repeated on 19 February 2012.

In a reversion to its previous markets, it has also made limited quantities of the PS945, a redesigned Pinkham and Smith portrait lens ,< REF > http :// www. christies. com / lotfinder / LotDetailsPrintable. aspx? intObjectID = 3954844 Accessed 20 August 2012 </ ref > and the Series XVa, a redesigned triple-convertible lens for 10 × 8 inch format.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

* Ramadan runs from July 19 to August 19 or 20 depending on the moon, 2012

* Laylat al-Qadr on August 14, 2012

* 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

As of May 2012, it is on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for a major exhibition.

" The Soul between Body and Immortality: The 13th Century Debate on the Definition of the Human Rational Soul as Form and Substance ", in: Philosophia: E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 1 / 2012.

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

In 2012, it is celebrated on March 5.

Archived from the original on 6 April 2012.

Since 2007 Raytheon has continued to slip on AMRAAM deliveries, leading the USAF to withhold $ 621 million in 2012 on account of 193 missiles not delivered.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

In Denmark the closing laws restricting retail trade on Sundays have been abolished with effect from the 1st of October 2012.

In 2012, the album was ranked # 385 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while Newsweek magazine pronounced it the second best album of its decade.

A Blu-ray and DVD release of season 9, titled Beavis and Butt-head-Volume 4, was released on February 14, 2012 in the United States.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

The construction of the project was awarded to the İçtaş-Astaldi consortium on May 29, 2012.

The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.

A 2012 poll on NFL. com rated the 2000 team as the second-greatest NFL team of the Super Bowl Era.

The Orioles also introduced a new alternate orange uniform to be worn on Saturday home games throughout the 2012 season.

The 2012 Man Booker Prize is to be awarded on 16 October 2012.

True color Satellite image of the island of Borneo on 14 May 2012, as taken by the Terra ( satellite ) | Terra satellite

In March 2012 the PBS network broadcast a feature length documentary about the life and music of Don McLean called " American Troubadour " produced by 4-time Emmy Award winning film maker Jim Brown.

* 7 May 2012: Atlantic Council's Distinguished Humanitarian Award

King's next novel, 11 / 22 / 63, was published November 8, 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Award Best Novel.

The show will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012, and will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall.

* UK's Critics ' Circle 2011 Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts, March 2012, for " what is effectively a lifetime achievement award ", as Mark Shenton ( Drama section chairman ) commented.

On 13 August, 2012, this project was officially announced to be The Zero Theorem, set to start shooting in Bucharest on October 22, produced by Dean Zanuck ( son to the late Richard D. Zanuck who was to originally produce in 2009 ), worldwide sales handled by Voltage Pictures, Toronto and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the lead, replacing Billy Bob Thornton who had been attached to the project in 2009.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

* Matz received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston.

In 2012, Blur received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

On January 24, 2012, Close received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, her first nomination since 1989, and her sixth Oscar nomination overall.

Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

On April 6, 2011, The Recording Academy announced a drastic overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

In 2012, the Horror Writers Association gave I Am Legend the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award.

* 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

Wings was the first of two silent films, the other being The Artist at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In April 2012 it was announced as the winner of the 2012 Rondo Award for ' Book of the Year '.

In November 2011, the New Students ' Centre was recognised a low environmental impact building, receiving ' Outstanding ' status under BREEAM, and in 2012 was one of three winners of the New London Award ( NLA ) in the Education category.

In 2012, the installation was honored as the best Air Force base in the world when it collectively earned the Commander-In Chief ( CINC ) Installation Excellence Award, beating out 161 USAF installations eligible for honors.

* On February 11, 2012, multi-Grammy Award winning singer Whitney Houston drowned in the bathtub of room 434 at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

On September 23, 2012, Louis-Dreyfus was awarded the prestigious Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation ( 2003 ), that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore ( 1998 ), The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 ) and Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 ).

* Fannie Flagg, author, actress, 2012 recipient of the Harper Lee Award